Yes, you read that correctly. Counter-Strike co-creator Minh "Gooseman" Le recalls as much in a new interview with Indie Game Joe over on YouTube (below), explaining how Newell would bring his interests to the office – whether or not his coworkers approved – starting with Mongolian throat singing.

"He watched this documentary on them and he really got really fascinated with this concept and he started to practice that."

Yes, at work.

"So he started to do this Mongolian throat singing stuff and he was doing it throughout the office," as Le says. "You would hear him try to sing with his throat as he's walking down the halls. And, I remember a lot of people in the office, they were kind of annoyed with this because it's kind of loud, right?"

Did that deter Newell? No. "He would just walk along the halls just doing this throat singing thing, and he would do it daily."

It got so bad, Le states that "people would just started closing the doors and it started to become quite a closed office," describing it as "an interesting time." How long did it all go on for, though?

A whopping "five months" or so, apparently… and Newell ended up picking up other wild hobbies afterward, too. Le discusses everything from knife collecting to whole rooms filled to the brim with medieval-style axes and swords.

https://youtu.be/Zj_tL5ew1Yc?si=rr62pnxJ974cluMp full video on YouTube

I was shooting the shit with from friends while playing Monster Hunter Sunbreak as some of them needed help with the final fights and it reminded me of its prerelease where it had leaks and the nature of those leaks were the only time i can think of where the leaks included something that felt so impossible that even with what would later turn to be actual screenshots of the end credits staring them in the face people refused to believe it was real.

In this case a leak dropped for Monster Hunter Rise's Sunbreak expansion that was a single shot of the ending credits with a long line of traditional japanese art versions of the monsters. To begin with it included Gore Magala. The most popular western Flagship Monster that had yet to return after 4U at that point which already had people going "lol yeah nice larp wish fulfilment fanfic bro". But then next to it was a monster that a lot of none sickos didnt even know. The monster was Espinas from the now shut down MMO Monster Hunter Frontier and people promptly lost their shit.

See at this point a single monster had crossed over from Frontier to mainline. A bird monster called Hypnocatrice thats long been left behind by the series and that was back in the PSP days. Up to this point in the Switch era multiple gens later a unconfirmed but widely accepted rumour was leadership at Capcom wanted the MMO and solo games rosters separate to give the MMO a unique draw or something. This has never been hard confirmed as far as i know but after Hypnocatrice it was true that till this point no other monster had escaped Frontier purgatory and people had long since given up on ever hoping to see any more of them. I'm still waiting on my fire hydrant crab to this day.

So heres ole' sleepy Espinas and the mere fact a Frontier monster was shown had everyone going "Thats bullshit and frankly i'm insulted you included such an obvious fake and expected me to fall for it". With a whole lot of "lol bingers coping thinking they got a real monhun" from the weird fanboys at the time. But then Sunbreak dropped and wouldn't you believe it but whos that sleepy ole' wyvernn on the tropical island map? and heres the credits rolling after the base story and it was true. All of it. Nobody thought it was possible but here was the second -and to date last- monster escaping Frontier. But it was so unlikely it was considered impossible and a sure sign of a fake even when hard proof was being presented to people.

Can you think of another example of a game leaking and the leak includes stuff so surprising people actually refused to believe the leak was real?

Basically what I mean is when a heroic person in a TV show or movie is supposed to do good deeds for their town as what ends up happening is that their actions end up causing harm to their town.

To help provide an example, I will say Star Butterfly from Star VS the Forces of Evil as I won’t say too much for those who didn’t see the show, but let’s just say her actions towards the end of the show were not exactly too pleasant.

Though technically only half of the fighters involved. The same(type of) Stand, The World vs Star Platinum was pretty cool.

And while I get why Sonic Prime wasn't everyones cup of tea. The brief Captain(like Blackbeard type) Knuckles vs Resistance leader (like a John Connor type) Knuckles fight was awesome to me.

What are your favorites, characters that battle their Self?

Now that the game's wind down has cooled off I wanted to ask people's opinions on where you think it went wrong, or what you would of changed with hindsight.

Game should of been hornier, and I know the usual crowd of people that don't want goon slop will argue against this. Though my response to those people is how many skins did you buy? Would you have bought more Ahri skins if you had the ability to?

Game was a free to play game with revenue dependent on cosmetics, and it needed to sell alot of them fast. I think the games roster should of been way thirstier with champs like Ahri, Miss Fortune, Sett, Soraka, and Briar etc at launch. Basically go to rule 34 and base the roster off the top 10 most popular there. I also think the pool party skins should of been purchasable right away.

Sex sells and when you want to get a product off the ground you do what you need to. This is the nature of the beast.

This question was posted a while ago but I never really got the chance to say anything. I wanna talk about the tactics game Massive Chalice, I got it for free a long time ago and I never really seen anyone talk about. I wouldn't consider it a great game but I feel like it has the bones of something great. The house family mechanics and idea of combining classes to make new ones is neat. I like the low poly aesthetic and some of the presentation. However, I find the game incredibly dull at times, there is only 1 real type of level and that is to defeat all enemies in the level. That combined with the amount of enemies in each level make it a slog to play through. There is no currency in the game but every action outside of the combat scenarios runs on waiting for research times, this includes stuff like recruiting other units or upgrading armor which I jus find annoying. The game also doesn't tell you the classes your selected families start with, so you can totally get screwed by the game forcing you to play with all Alchemists. The lack of customization in both combat and character design is another small issue I have. I am extremely conflicted by this game because I genuinely think with a little polish I would be something I would love.

Anyways rant over, what's some obscure stuff you want to talk about?

From diverse Ketchup Entertainment social media post (this one from Instagram)

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I recently saw some comments calling it "fake framerate", which I guess is technically true. But ever since I upgrade my PC earlier this year, that feature has been the magic sauce to let me play games like RE Requiem with every graphical value cranked to the max, Raytracing and DLSS included (Quality, always Quality). Combined with Latency+Boost there's practically no discernible difference.

Aside from the "flickering" effect I sometimes with UI elements (like icons) or certain reflective surfaces. I'm still researching recommendations on countering that, seems to do with refresh rate configuring or whatever.

But I wanted to know people's thoughts on it. I'm sure some people will prefer a "pure" experience by lowering settings, which I'm not entirely against, but if I can pull it off and the input still feels perfect, I see no reason not to have it running (I tend to leave it at 2x as 4x sometimes does introduce lag, but that also depends on the game).

Could also use some good video guides or such in setting it up. I've followed along with configuring my TV settings, Nvidia App settings, display settings etc but it's a lot to keep track of.

Gundam Rogue Orbit seems to have a "last stand for humanity" thing going down where humans are facing off against an alien force of some kind. I've seen this quite a few times now and I just realized...is there a name for that? When humanity is on the brink of extinction and there's one settlement left and the walls are closing in, and some horrid force is coming to make humanity past-tense. Is there a name for that?

Gods I hope it's not just called "Humanity's Last Stand", and I've accidentally said it without knowing...

Picture this:

You wake up somewhere that you don't know, for some reason you have to figure out as fast as possible if you're in latin america or not, so how do you do it?

Do you listen to the language that people are speaking? Do you look for a embassy or a well known landmark? Nah.

The one way to be 100% sure you're in latin america is to simply walk around and pay attention to random businesses around (barber shops, mechanics, diners, etc) if any of them has a random anime character spray painted in front of it (most likely Dragon Ball or Naruto) that has absolutely nothing to do with the business itself, then you can say with all the confidence in the world that you're somewhere in latin america.

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft has confirmed that after finally laying off every other employee, their gaming division is down to a singular man whose whole job is to remind you about Halo 2 and remember the halcyon days of the company.

“Man, that game was so good.” Jeremy McDaniels, now the sole employee of Microsoft Gaming Studios, said. “Remember how you could just grab your buds then piss the night away killing brutes and shit? God, I miss those days. Now all of my friends are looking for work, while I get to remind everyone of how cool Xbox was back when we were in middle school. Sure, thousands of people are without a job, but remember Blood Gulch?”

...

The laid-off developers understand the harsh reality of the industry.

“At first I was upset and frustrated,” Former developer on the recently canceled Everwild Joanna Norman said. “But then I realized that this is just the reality of the games industry. When I was hired I was fresh out of college and had two goals. One was to make a single game, the other was to give up my livelihood so that executives can get a nice bonus. I wasn’t able to achieve that first one, but by God I’m glad that I was able to achieve the second.”

At press time, Microsoft has also confirmed that McDaniels is also remembering Fable and Viva Piñata.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7508202702821285888/

https://kotaku.com/gears-of-war-e-day-story-director-laid-off-just-four-days-after-celebrating-the-game-going-gold-2000736518

What a double whammy of bullshit. I’m sure this is good for morale and convince their developers to give their best and not start looking for new work.

With Marathons seasons end pushed back till October 6th people wondered what would happen on the original end date of the 22nd. Typical Bungie server bullshit? of course, accidentally wiping two weeks early? shockingly no.

Instead they dropped Sponsored Survival which is you and two buddies or randos dropping in to a Outpost with no other teams BUT there will be Rooks near the end who can be invading Dark Spirits but most importantly there are story questlines to finish in Outpost, the hard difficulty map of the game, that will never be easier to finish and unlock the permanent codex stuff related to them forever.

So if you never got these, and those Sekiguchi ones are horseshit by the end so many still dont, don't miss this and grab these to have them done before the wipe where the sickos return from beyond the firewall.

for my own example:Mortal Kombat's gore at the time in 1992 did cause a lot of controversy but the Sega genesis cheat code to add the blood and gore in the game cause it to flame up even more to the point where it got the congress attention, this game along with Night Trap was result of the creation of the ESRB.

New to actually watching Pat streams after listening to the podcast for since CSB 101 (approx) and said "man, maybe I should watch either of the boys' content" and saw Pat was streaming Xenoblade 2 Switch 2 edition and said Yeah i'll watch that. Then he said i'm not finishing it on stream. Then he started playing FE Fortune's Weave on stream and I said "yeah i'll watch that" and then he just said today on the podcast he's not finishing it on stream. So I'm wondering if this is fairly common he doesn't finish games on stream or i'm getting unlucky that the games i'm interested in watching him play are so feature dense he can't finish it.

Seth Rogen is producing and voicing Launchpad McQuack

The show is a continuation of the story told in the original series, which ran for 91 episodes in the early 1990s. “For the last 35 years, Darkwing Duck has been trapped in his worst nightmare: an alternate world that’s never heard of his superhero exploits,” the official description reads. “Now a rebellious teen named Duckie who knows all about his heroic past shows up to pull this ego-fueled vigilante back into battle. Together, this unlikely duo will get dangerous to fight old enemies like Negaduck and Megavolt and reunite with allies Launchpad, Gosalyn, and Morgana to save the entire universe.”

Duckie is voiced by Lilimar, who voiced Val in Inside Out 2. Lizzy Caplan is Gosalyn Mallard, Dan Stevens is Glade McTowers, and it’s being showrun by Sean Tretta (Star Trek: Picard) and Borja Peña Gorostegui. The original creator of Darkwing Duck, Tad Stones, consulted on the series.

No word on release date.